A Blog for 2025

May 31, 2025 Rainy windy day. I actually saw a lot of people today and had short sweet conversations with a lot of people I enjoy.  I met people at LAVA to take their work for the show.  We'll hang it tomorrow.   I went for a ride in the rain.  There were a lot of fallen trees today, I didn't catch on that the wind was so strong, but there were trees in the roads.    The rookery was 57 and storm clouds were blowing by to the east.  Raindrops were falling, and a few song birds were talking, but not even the red winged black bird was showing his face. I saw four young deer, each one in a different place along the route.  They are so pretty and they all looked healthy.   I saw no big birds.  But there were plenty of daisies to be found.    

May 30, 2025 Took my ride to the canal and the cove today instead of to the rookery.  I wiggled around a big storm and a lot of sirens but didn't experience the rain or figure out where the 5 police cars were all going in a hurry.   I met fellow alumni at LAVA with their art work today, I'll meet more tomorrow.  But this weekend there are three actual art events happening there.  I think I listed them last night.  Tonight the artists were all there for Arts Walk and the Four Rivers School pop up art exhibit.  We had 90 people walk through.  I hung out with Charlie and Matthew and the artists and I think some really good networking happened.  I love it when it comes together that way.  One of the 10th grade artists is looking to put together an Indigenous Day at the school in Oct. so I introduced her to the artist who did the indigenous work on the walls.  Found out her daughter starts 10th grade at Four Rivers in September.  It...

May 29, 2025 It's 8:15 and the skies lightening up.  I want to begin to chart it.   Another very full day, after doing some work I went and had lunch with David.  I love having lunch with David, but I realized I'm so busy in the next few weeks getting a lunch in with him is going to be difficult.   There is so much going on.   First of all the gallery has something happening in it nonstop until September.   This weekend Four Rivers School is having their pop up end of the year art show for 3 days.  The artist whose work is on the big gallery wall is coming down Sat. evening and on Sunday evening we are hanging The Marlboro Remainders, the show I'm doing with fellow alum.    That's up for the month of June and then we have our Words on Art on Words project going up for July and August.  That has several workshops happening alongside it, too.  Today we met about it and solidified all of the plans.  Very cool. ...

May 28, 2025 Happy Birthday, Dianna!   Hope your day was sweet. Kind of an oddly special day.  My wrenched leg is still in pain, it's better, but it still hurts.   I had awful nightmares all night long and I did not sleep well.  Patrick woke me up, we talked for a bit and then I made it to the pool, thank God.  It really is a necessity no matter what I think when I first wake up.   My leg did not want to work normally and using it in the pool and then the hot tub actually made it feel better.  Plus I got all that support and sympathy.    Then I met an old friend from college to collect his art for our up coming art show.  I love the fact that without really talking a lot about it, people see why it's an interesting event to create.  We get to have a small reunion with a focus.  It'll be kind of short, but with a common ground.     I also love bringing new people into LAVA.  It's such a great s...

May 27, 2025 This day started off as a lovely late spring day. Jo and I wrote for awhile in her back porch surrounded by her newly planted and bloomed flowers.  The birds were extremely noisy and were clearly claiming their territory for the summer.  It was hard to do anything but smile.   Greenfield got to about 82 for a short while, but by the time I got to the rookery it was only 71 and very overcast.  But again there were so many birds.  Merlin spit their pictures out to me and I tried to find them.  The two loudest were the yellow warbler and the red eyed vireo.  I saw neither, although I saw these groups swooping down for water bugs.  I could tell they were not all the same type of bird, I could identify the swallows and the kingfisher, but there was something with a white stripe on his tail and the female red winged black birds were present.  I think she is lovely, but she's definitely ready to have that baby. This photo is both intere...

May 26, 2025 Bookmill, 1:30 71 degrees A couple hours of writing in the sun with  people who make me happy and inspire me to write more.  What more could I ask for?  I will rewrite what I wrote and post it sometime this week.  But I'm very happy to have the beginning of a writing routine. The toad stayed with us the entire time we wrote, he thought he was so well camouflaged in those shadows.  Very cool looking toad.   Got to the rookery around 6 and it was 59 degrees and partly sunny.  It seemed to be a happy place this evening.  I'm not sure how I make that assumption, except I was happy, so it must have been.  Bird list was big on Merlin, but as far as my eyes could see it was: heron, C. geese and 3 babies who have grown much bigger and swim much faster than a week ago, several red winged black birds, swallow, a pair of ducks that I will identify in a moment, starling, robins and a very loud tufted titmouse. Today was filled with idea...

  borrowed off Marlboro alumni posts. RIP Tim Little. Reading people's memories of Tim is such a sweet experience.  I have a few stories about Tim from over the years.  I'm never quite sure if these stories are interesting to anyone but me, but I agree with the majority of my fellow Marlboro community that Tim was a constant and a kind fixture in our Marlboro lives. Tim was a really good bridge player and we liked the same music to play bridge by.  We were good partners.  A really good game of bridge was with Trudy Putnam, Dan Woodbury and Tim Little. I think people were afraid I wouldn't make it through my first year because we played so much bridge. Late nights in Tim's apartment or Trudy's house were a major highlight of my years. I also was on the Admissions Committee under Tim and went to several admission's events in New England with him.  I drove with him to the one in my hometown of Wilton, Ct. to do a small gathering at the Cloutier's home.  W...